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    Default Full Tilt Daily Doubles...Did I blow up?

    Here are some hands from tonight's Daily Doubles on Full Tilt. The first is a squeeze play from Double A. Reads on original raiser are that he tries to punish shortstacks with marginal hands (saw him do it with K7s earlier) from early position. Villain 2 is somewhat loose and had just doubled me up after he raised ep w/AJo and I shoved over w/AKs.

    Full Tilt Poker Game #7624475912: Daily Double - A (57254092), Table 105 - 120/240 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:56:46 ET - 2008/08/12
    Seat 1: beforetime (5,315)
    Seat 2: Rengard (4,680)
    Seat 3: TaRzAnOnAcId (10,205)
    Seat 4: wife hates this (14,305)
    Seat 6: Hero (5,355)
    Seat 7: SzuperJancsi (2,850)
    Seat 8: DiWantsUrCHIPS (20,824)
    Seat 9: AussieAle (5,945)
    Hero posts the small blind of 120
    SzuperJancsi posts the big blind of 240
    The button is in seat #5
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to Hero [Ac Th]
    DiWantsUrCHIPS folds
    AussieAle raises to 580
    beforetime folds
    Rengard folds
    TaRzAnOnAcId folds
    wife hates this calls 580
    Hero raises to 5,330, and is all in

    My thoughts were that ep raiser was opening wide as per what I had seen and lp caller was calling wide (he had seemed somewhat loose with his pf calls). So it seemed like a good spot to squeeze...Agree, or disagree and why?

    The rest of these hands are from Double B. The first hand is a line check. I am not sure how I should have played this for max value but I am pretty sure my line is wrong.

    Full Tilt Poker Game #7625313350: Daily Double - B (57254308), Table 71 - 500/1000 Ante 125 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:00:25 ET - 2008/08/13
    Seat 1: oles son (25,128)
    Seat 2: Jeudon (12,268)
    Seat 3: davos1 (21,274)
    Seat 4: Hero (33,399)
    Seat 5: shomikaci (15,134)
    Seat 6: madrazr (11,958)
    Seat 7: MadScience (19,640)
    Seat 8: rsquared165 (7,508)
    Seat 9: SKIM 847 (63,469)
    MadScience posts the small blind of 500
    rsquared165 posts the big blind of 1,000
    The button is in seat #6
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to Hero [Ac Qc]
    SKIM 847 has 15 seconds left to act
    SKIM 847 folds
    oles son folds
    Jeudon folds
    davos1 raises to 2,000
    Hero calls 2,000
    shomikaci calls 2,000
    madrazr folds
    MadScience folds
    rsquared165 folds
    *** FLOP *** [9d As 2c]
    davos1 bets 2,000
    Hero raises to 5,000
    shomikaci folds
    davos1 has 15 seconds left to act
    davos1 calls 3,000
    *** TURN *** [9d As 2c] [4d]
    davos1 checks
    Hero checks
    *** RIVER *** [9d As 2c 4d] [7h]
    davos1 bets 5,000
    Hero??

    I had not seen much from villain so I am looking for the standard line to get max value. I checked the turn hoping to catch a bluff on the river, and my main question is should I reraise the river here or just call? He is kind of committed to call me with weaker aces, and I am unsure if he is folding hand like JJ-KK.

    The rest of the hands take place when we are fairly deep with only 4 tables remaining. I have a good stack and am wondering if I just blew up or got unlucky.

    Hand 2 is vs a tight player that has not been making many moves. He had limped into my blind twice before and check/folded the flop both times.

    Full Tilt Poker Game #7625902348: Daily Double - B (57254308), Table 71 - 1200/2400 Ante 300 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:49:46 ET - 2008/08/13
    Seat 1: oles son (43,628)
    Seat 2: wow73 (51,066)
    Seat 3: DaBear4523 (67,739)
    Seat 4: Hero (79,913)
    Seat 5: Anonymus_666 (73,906)
    Seat 6: kjmwarrior (48,820)
    Seat 7: ppinurshoe (33,516)
    Seat 8: ActionDonKK (91,229)
    DaBear4523 posts the small blind of 1,200
    Hero posts the big blind of 2,400
    The button is in seat #2
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to Hero [Tc Qd]
    Anonymus_666 folds
    kjmwarrior has 15 seconds left to act
    kjmwarrior folds
    ppinurshoe has 15 seconds left to act
    ppinurshoe folds
    ActionDonKK has 15 seconds left to act
    ActionDonKK folds
    oles son folds
    wow73 folds
    DaBear4523 calls 1,200
    Hero checks
    *** FLOP *** [Qs 5h 4d]
    DaBear4523 checks
    Hero bets 3,600
    DaBear4523 calls 3,600
    *** TURN *** [Qs 5h 4d] [8d]
    DaBear4523 checks
    Hero bets 7,400
    DaBear4523 raises to 19,200
    Hero??

    My thoughts on this hand were that calling and folding the river was bad. Shoving over also seemed pretty bad given my reads on opp. I did not think he was reraising me here with a draw given what I had seen from him earlier.

    Hand 3 is probably the one I think I played the worst of the bunch but I want to confirm that. The raiser has been playing fairly tight but the caller has been pretty loose and somewhat spewy.

    Full Tilt Poker Game #7625930247: Daily Double - B (57254308), Table 71 - 1200/2400 Ante 300 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:52:16 ET - 2008/08/13
    Seat 1: oles son (43,328)
    Seat 2: wow73 (50,766)
    Seat 3: DaBear4523 (83,239)
    Seat 4: Hero (66,213)
    Seat 5: Anonymus_666 (73,606)
    Seat 6: kjmwarrior (48,520)
    Seat 7: ppinurshoe (33,216)
    Seat 8: ActionDonKK (90,929)
    Hero posts the small blind of 1,200
    Anonymus_666 posts the big blind of 2,400
    The button is in seat #3
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to Hero [5d 5h]
    kjmwarrior has 15 seconds left to act
    kjmwarrior is sitting out
    kjmwarrior has timed out
    kjmwarrior folds
    ppinurshoe folds
    kjmwarrior has returned
    ActionDonKK has 15 seconds left to act
    ActionDonKK folds
    oles son raises to 4,800
    wow73 calls 4,800
    DaBear4523 folds
    Hero calls 3,600
    Anonymus_666 calls 2,400
    *** FLOP *** [7c 8d 9d]
    Hero checks
    Anonymus_666 checks
    oles son bets 2,400
    wow73 calls 2,400
    Hero raises to 11,000
    Anonymus_666 folds
    oles son raises to 38,228, and is all in
    wow73 folds
    Hero kicks himself for raising

    I was not sure what original raiser was on but his super weak lead into that huge pot screamed weakness. I was just trying to exploit what I thought was weakness to win a sizeable pot, but afterwards it felt kinda spewy. Just fold the flop here?

    Hand 4 was kinda gross and I do not know if anyone is folding here but lets see.

    Full Tilt Poker Game #7625965314: Daily Double - B (57254308), Table 71 - 1500/3000 Ante 400 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:55:25 ET - 2008/08/13
    Seat 1: oles son (72,428)
    Seat 2: wow73 (42,466)
    Seat 3: DaBear4523 (90,239)
    Seat 4: Hero (49,313)
    Seat 5: Anonymus_666 (66,206)
    Seat 6: kjmwarrior (42,920)
    Seat 7: ppinurshoe (37,216)
    Seat 8: ActionDonKK (89,829)
    Seat 9: brunorma (85,578)
    ppinurshoe posts the small blind of 1,500
    ActionDonKK posts the big blind of 3,000
    The button is in seat #6
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to Hero [7h 7d]
    brunorma folds
    oles son folds
    wow73 folds
    DaBear4523 folds
    Hero raises to 9,000
    Anonymus_666 folds
    kjmwarrior has 15 seconds left to act
    kjmwarrior folds
    ppinurshoe has 15 seconds left to act
    ppinurshoe raises to 36,816, and is all in
    ActionDonKK has 15 seconds left to act
    ActionDonKK folds
    Hero is getting 2:1 and hates folding against his range.

    Not much of a read on villain. He was shortstacked most of the time and had been playing accordingly. This seems like one of those "flipping or dominated" spots. Who is gamboooling here and who is folding?
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    Hand 1 - meh the problem is AT is marginal as well. If you have a read that villain 1 can fold here, I think it's fine. Otherwise it's asking for trouble. Also, I like a go'n'go here (raise to like 2400 and then push any flop if called) rather than just a push but that's just stylistic.

    Hand 2 - as played, it's close, but I just call. If he's bluffing a raise will make him fold. If he's not, you're only getting value out of AJ/AT. You're crushed by AK, and any 2 pair. But I also don't play it this way - I bet the turn and get it all-in by the river.

    Hand 3 - stop letting him limp his blind - especially with antes. raise preflop. If I did let him see a flop here I also just check behind on that turn and call a river bet. As played - looks like a fold to me. You are only beating unlikely hands (Q9, Q7, semibluff draws or bluffs).

    Hand 4 - yeah, the weak lead on flops like that always make me want to jam as well. I feel like such a retard folding, but I think it's the right play there.

    Hand 5 - raise less than 3x there pre and save yourself some chips. If he's pushing any pair there, it's a call. If he's tighter, it's a fold.
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    1 - I wouldn't do this, ATo has really crappy equity vs. the calling range of an UTG raiser

    2 - just bet the turn and get all the money in, in my experience bad players love to minraise preflop with weak aces and never fold top pair so I like your flop raise

    3 - raise preflop, as played postflop looks good if you folded, don't check the turn because there are a ton of garbage pairs in his range that will pay you off

    4 - that's a horrible flop for a bluff raise, odds are someone has a pair + straight draw that they won't fold, raising small bets is fine on a lot of flops but not this one

    5 - snapcall, and I agree on raising smaller than 3x but even if I'd raised 2.5x I'd still snapcall this

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